Sense of Time

I woke up this morning, ready to get up for the early yoga class I teach before work - woke up, probably 12-15 times.

Usually, my sense of time is reliable.  I'll wake up right about the time I expect to - 6am is typical.  Even if I set an alarm I rarely reach it, as I'll wake up 15 minutes or so before it goes off.

Sometimes I'll wake up very early in the morning - midnight or 1am - thinking I've slept all night, but then I'm back to sleep for the duration.

Not every night is like that, though, and last night was exceptional.  I remember waking at 1am from a sound sleep, and being surprised that the night still had 5 hours left.  After that, though, I kept waking up thinking hours had passed to find it was 15 or 20 minutes.

In spite of my messed up sense of time, the world kept spinning and the clock kept ticking, and the right time to get up finally arrived.